We talk a lot in the powerhouse women community about getting out of your own way and getting into action around your big ideas.

But how do you actually do that?

Especially in the face of inevitable fear, self-doubt, resistance, all the things that come along with chasing big ideas.

Well, I don't know about you, but for me, the biggest thing that's made a difference is creating

accountability.

And sometimes if I'm after a massive goal, I have to create massive accountability.

So I'm going to give you some ideas today about how you can create more accountability

to make sure that you follow through on the big ideas that you have this next year.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host, and the founder of Powerhouse Women,

and together we'll unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for to help you get

out of your own way and into action around your next big idea. Okay, welcome back.

So today we're going to keep this short and sweet, but this is like a self-check for all of us,

myself included, because as we head into a new year, you know, we're a couple weeks in and I don't know if you're a

resolution person. I'm not really a resolution person, but I do always like set new targets for

myself. And you know that as the year kind of like starts to settle in and we get into January,

there's that group of people who are on top of the thing they said

they were going to do, their commitments, and there's those that, you know, life gets in the way

and life gets busy or resistance starts to creep in. So how do we actually create accountability

that works? How do we create an environment where we're likely, more likely,

to follow through on the things that we say we're going to do? Because I know that none of us love

the feeling, well, I will just say I don't love the feeling of saying I'm going to do something

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